ENCOW16BX (Schäfer & Bildhauer (2012))
webcorpus containing 9 billion tokens
downloaded data queried via CWB
[lemma=“let”] [pos=“N.|PP.”][pos=“V.*”][pos=“DT”]?[pos=“N.*”]
recurrent quotes, e.g. Let them eat cake
discourse-organizing and text-organizing semi-formulaic patterns, e.g. Let me explain, let us examine
proverbs, e.g. let bygones be bygones
Multiple covarying collexeme analysis (Stefanowitsch & Gries (2005))
two variants:
(pro)noun1 - verb - noun2
verb - noun2